Boy who cried wolf—devoured.
This case just breaks my heart, and I feel that I don't have the talent it would take to write about it.
Bradley Manning is a young kid who joined the military. He discovered that the U.S. is committing war crimes around the world. He tried to tell the American people, so they'd know what the government was doing in their name and with their money. He's a real American hero.
For that, he's been locked up in a Marines prison without a trial. He's been tortured. Human rights groups, congressmen, and his own family have been denied the right to see him.
He pissed off the wrong guys.
The problem is that the information he leaked didn't just make Bush and Cheney look bad, it made Obama and Hillary look bad. Obama may have killed Bin Laden, but he's killed and tortured a lot of innocent people in the process (122,000 Iraqi civilians killed).
Manning will get a military trial instead of a civilian trial. This is bad news. Obama, the commander-in-chief of the armed forces, has already declared Manning guilty. Any military official working on the Manning case would have to sacrifice his or her career if they were to go against Obama, their commanding officer.
Which makes me wonder: What's wrong with our court system? Are our laws too weak for Manning? Are our lawyers too incompetent? Our judges too foolish? We were also told that our civilian court system also couldn't handle the Guantanamo cases. I find this hard to believe. Our court systems in 1770 were able to try British soldiers who had shot Americans to death. Have they not improved in 240 years? But perhaps that is the problem. Those soldiers were acquitted. The elites—whose reputations were called into question by Manning—want him punished.
I don't know how this story will end. So far, the boy has cried wolf, and the wolves have circled in to devour him. Will we sit by and watch? Or merely forget him?
Find out more about Manning, and donate to his defense lawyers at BradleyManning.org.
Bradley Manning is a young kid who joined the military. He discovered that the U.S. is committing war crimes around the world. He tried to tell the American people, so they'd know what the government was doing in their name and with their money. He's a real American hero.
For that, he's been locked up in a Marines prison without a trial. He's been tortured. Human rights groups, congressmen, and his own family have been denied the right to see him.
He pissed off the wrong guys.
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The problem is that the information he leaked didn't just make Bush and Cheney look bad, it made Obama and Hillary look bad. Obama may have killed Bin Laden, but he's killed and tortured a lot of innocent people in the process (122,000 Iraqi civilians killed).
Manning will get a military trial instead of a civilian trial. This is bad news. Obama, the commander-in-chief of the armed forces, has already declared Manning guilty. Any military official working on the Manning case would have to sacrifice his or her career if they were to go against Obama, their commanding officer.
Which makes me wonder: What's wrong with our court system? Are our laws too weak for Manning? Are our lawyers too incompetent? Our judges too foolish? We were also told that our civilian court system also couldn't handle the Guantanamo cases. I find this hard to believe. Our court systems in 1770 were able to try British soldiers who had shot Americans to death. Have they not improved in 240 years? But perhaps that is the problem. Those soldiers were acquitted. The elites—whose reputations were called into question by Manning—want him punished.
I don't know how this story will end. So far, the boy has cried wolf, and the wolves have circled in to devour him. Will we sit by and watch? Or merely forget him?
Find out more about Manning, and donate to his defense lawyers at BradleyManning.org.
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